28 September 2010

27 September 2010

Rather appropriately, having just named my blog, I have now discovered that my local purveyor of crispy wonderfulness has stopped stocking Burts bacon-flavoured crisps (IMHO, the best crisps in the world, and quite possibly in the universe). This follows my local Waitrose's decision to stop stocking them several years ago, following which I switched allegiances to a local farm shop for a couple of years until they had the temerity to stop trading in Burts items. I'd only just discovered that a different farm shop here sold them, but now they've stopped too. I guess I'll just have to buy direct, in bulk. Possibly by the fieldful.

This, pretty obviously, is my new blog. As with all creative endeavours, trivial or otherwise, one of the major challenges is in naming: choosing something distinctive is obviously important, especially when it comes to all things online (the name My Blog is unlikely to be easily uniquely found by googling). I briefly considered Diacritical Mass, Situation: Diacritical and other similar possibilities in the light of my predilection for foreign languages, diacritical marks and so on; however, it seems that others have had those ideas before me. Then, I pondered some old names that had been rattling around in the back of my head for a few years: Dr Strel’s Planet of Infinite Cake, www.strobeweasel.com, and even The Blithery Repository. There were others, even worse. A few days after deciding on Insert crisps to continue I have come to the conclusion that I really just ought to get on with it. So here we are. Or, more in my usual vein, You are here.